Jose Luis Perdomo-Padilla v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a foreign national did not become a national of the United States when “he completed an application for naturalization that contained a statement of allegiance to the United States”
• identifying residents of American Samoa as noncitizen nationals (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).